Arthur Kelly

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.

Scully invites his mates to gatecrash his mum's New Year's Eve party.